The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-23
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


tate valued at nearly 5000 900.
GENERAL BoULANGER's wife is rabid hater
of England and everything English.
FRANCES HoDGsoN BURNETT is now thirty
four years of age, but looks much younger
SMITH HIGGISs is the king of the dry goods
business in New York, and worth $50, 600. 900.
NEW YORK Tribune: st. Louis meanly says
that the only thing that keeps Lent in Chicago
is money.
JUDGE ALBION w. TouRGEE thinks the pres
ent generation has had three great apostles of
the beautiful-Carlyle Ruskin and Beecher.
BEN: PERLEY PooRE makes the startling as
sertion that the practice OF snuff dpping has
found great favor this season among the fair sex
at Washington.
On the condition that he sign the pledge ladies
of the W. c. T. IT,, OF Morristown, N. j.,
bought the entire stock and trade of saloon
keeper, and destroyedit.
GEORGE GOULD has settled into such retired
state Of domesticity since lis marriage that all
his former friends hre growing at his socalled
neglect. His one aim now is said to be to rival
his fathers success.
GENERAL ANNENKoFF. who is building the
Russian railroad in Bokhara. is man of fifty
five years. full of vigor. energy and hope. His
wife is less than half his age, and is a very
wealthy German lady.
A CATHOLIC priest sent letter to Speaker
Carlisle, asking him if he would act as agent to
dispose of tickets for rattle at fair He
thought the Speakers influence would induce
many to contribute to good cause.
TID-BITs 81 don't believe in all this talk
about SO mucn liquor being sold in prohibition
States" exclaimed Doolittle, excitedly "Why
notr "Wel l asked an Iowa man how LIQUOR
sold in his State and he said it was drug in the
market"
Mr. W. W. STORY. who is making the statue
and monument of Francis S. Key for Golden
Gate Park. San Francisco writes from Rome
that the entire structure will be about fifty feet
high, and should be placed level ground, not
on knoll.
EXCUSE me, SIR said a young man. nudgine
fellow-passenger in Chicago car; '.you have a
speck of SCOT on the end of your nosen That's
been there for eighteen years." replied the pas
senger. 'It's peculiar kind of a MOLE and
you ara the ninth man to ask me to sponge that
nose since breakfast this morning AS rule
the average is about twelve q day."
LADY WILDE, mother of Oscar Wilde and wife
of Sir William Wilde. who is known all over Ire-
wrote revolutionary poems during the Young
Ireland rebellion, in 1848, is in absolute want in
London. For six years she has not received a
penny of rent. owing to the land war, yet she
| tate
In his earlier years the late Professor E. L.
| Youmans was very fond of rare roast beef, but
on one occasion Professor Aeassiz told him
| that trichine were liable to be found in beef
| az in pork, and that the only way to avoid the
| risk of eating them was to have ones meat thor
oughly cooked. Always afterward Professor
Youman insisted upon having his beef "well
| done.n
| PAUL FEyAL, one of the greatest of modern
French novels.s, died recently at the age of
morally Objectionable. but in 1876 ne was 'scon
verified and his writings since have had a strong
religious tone. Financial disaster was the cause
road to Damascus on the ruins of the Ottoman
loan" He wrote some of his works in conjunc-
| ton with Sardou.
THIS is the way the contemplated debut as a
star of Mrs. James Brown Potter strikes the
average chorus girl, as reported by the New
York Herald: s'Oh, che makes me tired. It's
| so kind of her not to give the Princess of Wales
| a cold cut, now that she's going on the stage
| tra-la. should think she would shake the
| Princess Will she wear tights9 That's the
| only way to begin professional career I think
she would make hit in them"
One of Representative Gamblers lady con-
stituents wrote to ask him to call on the Presi-
dent and Cabinet the Supreme Court, and the
| Senators and Representatives, and ask each one
| of them to send her an old cravat to be worked
into a crazy quilt She added "P S.-Don't
fail to ask Dir. Cleveland to send q piece Of his